Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone Into A Politician

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Fri, 05/22/2015 - 07:50

Source: www.shareable.net | Original Post Date: January 20, 2014 –

Liquid Democracy is one of the boldest contemporary innovations in democratic decision-making. The idea uses web technology that allows users to interact in new ways. Its primary innovators are located in Berlin, and Germany has been the first to adopt and apply Liquid Democracy systems in the context of political parties, parliamentary processes, and some organizations.

Liquid Democracy has a number of key features. In the Liquid Democracy system, a party member can assign a proxy vote to any other member, thereby assigning a personal delegate, instead of voting for a representative. A member can give their vote to another member for all issues, for a particular policy area, or for a particular decision only for any length of time...

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Pipeline Spill Dumps 105,000 Gallons of Oil on California’s Coastline

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Fri, 05/22/2015 - 07:47

Oil from a broken pipeline coats miles of the Pacific Ocean and shoreline near Goleta, Calif., May 20, 2015, after a 24-inch underground pipeline broke May 19th and leaked into a culvert leading to the ocean. Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline said an thousands of gallons of oil were released before the pipeline was shut down. Photos by Jonathan Alcorn/Greenpeace.

Up to 105,000 gallons of oil obtained via offshore drilling have spilled from a pipeline owned by Plains All American at Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County in California. At least 21,000 gallons have poured into the Pacific Ocean and the spill’s impacts stretch nine miles, according to the Associated Press.

As a result, California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in Santa Barbara County, which he said in a press statement “cuts red tape and helps the state quickly mobilize all available resources.”

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The Numbers Game and Living an Ageless Day

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Thu, 05/21/2015 - 23:18

by Paul Lipton

ageless-day_OMTimesNumbers are everywhere. You can’t avoid them, even if you try. They are arbitrary, yet we have given numbers an amount of power that is disproportionate to true power and influence. The biggest number that seems to control us is our date of birth. This is especially so with numbers after 30. There is the 35 or major 40. Then, you arrive at numbers that seem to have a false power over you, such as 50, 60, 70 and so on.

With each life marker, you may start feeling that there is less opportunity or others might be treating you differently. There is some sense of becoming invisible or just not being included in events of the moment. It is corrosive and hurtful, but so arbitrary and uncalled for. You are not different. You have just lived and experienced more that life has to offer. You are more vital than ever. Your wisdom is just finally coming out of its cocoon. Instead of being excluded, you should be sought out.

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How Negative Energy Affects Your Life And How To Clear It

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Thu, 05/21/2015 - 23:16

Source: www.loveorabove.com | Original Post Date: August 5, 2012 –

You know that like attracts like, right? So here’s the deal: Positive people are drawn to positive energy; negative people are drawn to negative energy.

We tend to perceive negative energy as something other people have. Sure, sometimes we feel negative – as in, “go away and leave me alone, world!” but did you know that negativity can be so ingrained in you that it goes unnoticed?

That’s because negativity sometimes wears a disguise called ‘reality’. It’s easy to rationalize that you’re ‘just being realistic’ in not daring to act on a dream – and believe it!

You may assume that positive people are not being realistic – that they’re being naive, that they are in denial with their heads stuck in the sand, that they put on fake smiles in the face of difficulty and so forth.  But are they really happy idiots or is there something to their positivity?

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Frustration Gets Your Goat

Submitted by Galactic Free Press on Thu, 05/21/2015 - 21:05

When you are frustrated beyond measure, you are sure that frustration has to go away from you. No, dears, it is you who must unattach from frustration. You know I am not suggesting that you let frustration keep beating on you. I am saying the contrary.

You are speaking of frustration that gets the better of you, as if you have no say in the matter. What you can do, no matter how reluctantly, is to keep some distance between you and frustration. Frustration isn’t going to kill you. It is not out to ruin you.

For whatever reason, you have reached your limit. It is you who sets your limit.

Frustration comes from people and from things that get your goat. When the computer seems to have a mind of its own, the computer isn’t out to get you. It doesn’t have it in for you. In effect, the computer doesn’t know how to compute.

It is the same with people. They have a certain perspective different from yours. It is you who says you have come up against a stone wall. You have come up against something that takes you away from your purpose. Does your purpose have to be so thrown by disturbances in the world? When someone or something may seem to be blocking your way, what’s the first thing to do? Step around it, dear ones. You don’t have to meet frustration head on.

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